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 Dr.
Barbara Griffin
Associate
Dean
College of Arts and Sciences
phone: 202 806-6700
fax: 202 234-3947
email: coas@howard.edu
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Bio:
Dr. Barbara Griffin received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature
in 1989 from the University of Maryland. In 1970 she received her Bachelor of
Arts Degree from Morgan State University, and in 1972 she received a Master of
Arts Degree in English and American Literature from the same institution. From
1970 to 1973, she served as a teaching fellow at Morgan State University. In
this capacity, she taught Humanities and Rhetoric and Composition as well as
chaired the committee charged with revising the humanities curriculum in the
English Department. In 1974, Dr. Griffin taught at Bay College of Maryland...read
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 Dr.
Rudolph Hock, Chairman
The
Department of Classics
Locke Hall 254 -Box 827
Washington DC 20059
phone: 202 806-6725
fax: 202 806-5224
email:
Department Website
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Hock earned his doctorate in Classics from
the Johns Hopkins University, and has been
a faculty member for over ten years. His
research interests include the Roman historian
Livy, freedom and slavery in the ancient
mediterranean, and questions about the
way current ideas and ideologies influence
the reconstruction of the past. He is currently
working on a source-book on comparative
slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world.
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 Dr.
Eleanor Traylor, Chairman
The Department of English
Locke 250, 2400 Sixth St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20059
phone: 202 806-6730
fax: 202.806.6708
email:
Department
Website
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Eleanor W. Traylor, Graduate Professor
of English and Chairman of the Department
of English in the College of Arts and Sciences
at Howard University, is an acclaimed scholar
and critic in African-American literature
and criticism. Dr. Traylor obtained a B.A.
from Spelman College; an M.A. from Atlanta
University; and a Ph.D. from Catholic University,
where she pursued her interests in African-American
literature and mythology concentrating this
focus in a dissertation on Richard Wright.
She later received a Merrill Scholarship
to the Stuttgarter Hochschule in West Germany
and a research fellowship to study at the
Institute of African Studies in Ghana and
Nigeria. More recently, Dr. Traylor has traveled
to South Africa, Paris, Brazil, Jamaica,
Martinique, Jerusalem, Switzerland, Germany,
Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands to address
scholarly forums. Her work has appeared in
the form of chapter essays, biographies,
articles, and papers on such challenging
African-American writers as Larry Neal, Henry
Dumas, Toni Cade Bambara, Margaret Walker,
James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Richard
Wright.
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Bio:
James J. Davis, chair and professor
of Spanish and Foreign Language Education, earned
the B.A. in Spanish and English Education at
Virginia State University, the M.A. in Spanish
Language and Literature at the Ohio State University,
and the Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education at
the University of Maryland, College Park. He
also holds a certificate in Hispanic Studies
from the University of Madrid. As a Fulbright
scholar, he earned a certificate in Brazilian
Studies and Portuguese from the Instituto Alumni
in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Davis’ research interests
are African Americans and foreign language learning
, the history of Black education, and the manifestations
of Blackness in the literature of the Dominican
Republic. His publications have appeared in...read
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 Dr.
Patrick Goddin, Chairman
Philosophy
Department
226 Locke Hall
2400 4th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20059
phone: 202 806-6811
fax: 202 518-3347
email:
Department
Website
Bio:
Dr. Goodin currently serves as Chair
of the Philosophy Department. His areas of
teaching and research are Ancient Philosophy,
Afro-Caribbean Philosophy, Africana Thought
and the History of Philosophy. He is affiliated
with the Interdisciplinary Minors Program in
Caribbean Studies, and is a member of the Caribbean
Philosophical Association. Dr. Goodin is also
the Book Review Editor of the journal Philosophia
Africana.
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Dr.
James Davis, Chairman